Name that toy?

[Amy & Bernie]

Hi all, I recently moved this from a training group because it's more of a trick really, not a behavior issue.

Have any of you trained your Doodles to recognize their toys by name? Back before we had Bernie (otherwise I would have paid better attention!) I was listening to a segment on NPR where they were discussing how many unique words can potentially make up a dog's vocabulary, and for 'brighter' breeds it was pretty impressive if I remember correctly. And of course I put Doodles in the 'brighter' category!

Anyhow, we'd like to teach Bernie the names of his toys and I was curious if any of you have succeeded at this, and if you have any tips for us newbies?

[Lisa {Zoe's Mom]]

Ditto what Karen said.

[Harley Girl & Linda Neff]

When we tell Harley to get her 'quacker' - she gets her duck, when we tell her to get her 'squeaker' - she gets her elephant that has squeakers in each foot, she knows 'ball', she definitely knows 'frisbee' along with some identifying words for her toys. 

[Taylor & Huff]

Huff knows the word "Cookie"! Does that count?:) He loves his cookies!

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

I can tell Chloe to get her toy and she just looks at me like yeah right! But I can say go watch for daddy;s car ans she runs to the wondow, this is probably because Myla steals all the toys from Chloe so she no longer "has a toy"

Myla-if you say go get a toy we jump for joy when she runs back with anythign because that means she will stop licking us!!